Ristorante Vivace

What locals are saying about Ristorante Vivace

Vivace is modern Italian cooking with Sicilian roots, led by chef Luigi Tumminello: a long menu of pastas, ravioli, risotto and gnocchi, wood-fired pizzas, fish and meat. The pastas include black spaghetti with squid ink and shrimp, rigatoni alla Norma, puttanesca and tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms; the cheese ravioli with truffle and porcini cream is the priciest of its section. The pizzas run from the Margherita to the Reale, with burrata, prosciutto crudo and truffle-flavored balsamic cream, and to finish there are tiramisù, pistachio parfait with hot chocolate and Sicilian cannoli. People who stop by keep praising the chef and the service.

You eat in a room with a lit wall of wine bottles, and the idea is dinner: open Monday to Saturday from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM and closed on Sundays. Pastas run from ₡8,500 to ₡18,000, pizzas from ₡7,500 to ₡22,000 and fish from ₡14,000 to ₡24,000, taxes and service included; on Wednesdays pizzas, except the Margherita, are 30% off. It is across from the Best Western, in the center of Jacó, and you can book on its site.